Lamentations 3:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, Because he hath borne it upon him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let him sit alone uncomplaining and keeping silent [in hope], because [God] has laid [the yoke] upon him [for his benefit]. [Rom. 8:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Common English Bible

He should sit alone and be silent when God lays it on him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Jod. He shall sit solitary and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Lamentations 3:28 Cross References

Job 23:2

Even today is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Psalm 102:7

I watch, and am become Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

Psalm 39:10

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

Psalm 39:9

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

Jeremiah 15:17

I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.